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RFC 1321 - APPENDIX A - Reference Implementation

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### APPENDIX A - Reference Implementation

This appendix contains the following files taken from RSAREF: A Cryptographic Toolkit for Privacy-Enhanced Mail:

         global.h -- global header file

         md5.h -- header file for MD5

         md5c.c -- source code for MD5

For more information on RSAREF, send email to <rsaref@rsa.com>.

The appendix also includes the following file:

         mddriver.c -- test driver for MD2, MD4 and MD5

The driver compiles for MD5 by default but can compile for MD2 or MD4 if the symbol MD is defined on the C compiler command line as 2 or 4.

The implementation is portable and should work on many different plaforms. However, it is not difficult to optimize the implementation on particular platforms, an exercise left to the reader. For example, on "little-endian" platforms where the lowest-addressed byte in a 32- bit word is the least significant and there are no alignment restrictions, the call to Decode in MD5Transform can be replaced with a typecast.

The MD5 test suite (driver option "-x") should print the following results:

    MD5 test suite:
    MD5 ("") = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
    MD5 ("a") = 0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661
    MD5 ("abc") = 900150983cd24fb0d6963f7d28e17f72
    MD5 ("message digest") = f96b697d7cb7938d525a2f31aaf161d0
    MD5 ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") = c3fcd3d76192e4007dfb496cca67e13b
    MD5 ("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") =
    d174ab98d277d9f5a5611c2c9f419d9f
    MD5 ("123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
    78901234567890") = 57edf4a22be3c955ac49da2e2107b67a

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RFC 1321 - APPENDIX A - Reference Implementation